Gemma Martin

Gemma has been providing strategic people & culture leadership across the private sector for almost 20 years. Her experience spans all areas of people and culture including learning and development, culture, employee engagement, workplace relations, data and analytics and remuneration and benefits.

With experience in both the United States and Australia, Gemma has held senior leadership positions within a number of large ASX-listed companies including BlueScope, Treasury Wine Estates and Downer Group, where in her most recent role Gemma lead the people strategy across Downer Utilities with a particular focus on creating an engaged and psychologically safe workplace, empowering people to successfully deliver outcomes for Downer's customers, including Sydney Water.

Gemma has a proven track record of successfully leading large scale transformational change, improving diversity and inclusion outcomes, developing and implementing strategy, and leading employee engagement and culture initiatives.

Gemma is a member of the Australian Human Resource Institute, and holds a Senior Professional of Human Resources (SPHR) certification from the HR Certification Institute in the USA.